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liverpool’s chibuku has been mixing it up for a whole decade now. dJmag looks back…
LEGENDARY is a word that gets bandied about so lazily that it’s just about lost all was mayhem — people dancing on the bar, DJs bladdered, people falling asleep behind
meaning, but in the case of Liverpool’s Chibuku — celebrating their 10th birthday this speakers. And it was ours. We didn’t want to go superclubbing to trance, so this was like
year — the cap well and truly fits. After all, how many nights can say the late John Peel our little Hacienda.
dedicated two pages to them in his autobiography? Or claim that French electro stars
Justice call them up and ask to play unannounced for nothing more than a sleazyjet When Chibuku upscaled to the dilapidated grandeur of the 3000-capacity Barfly (now
flight and a bottle of rum? known as Masque) in 2004, their growing hype soon spread nationwide.
You can save the postcards, because the simple answer is none. Or, at least, none bar “We booked Stuart Price [then known as electro darling Les Rythmes Digitales] and sold
Chibuku — a party that started out as a debauched student session for 150 music lovers the club out, we were just like ‘what the fuck have we created here?’” says Rich. “For the
to the globally renowned, multi-room smash-up that redefined Liverpool clubbing for first time, agents started to support us and it started to snowball. Yousef [friend, DJ and
the genre-wrecking noughties. promoter of Barfly night Circus] helped introduce us to a higher level of agents and DJs.”
“You’ve got to look at what Liverpool was when Chibuku started,” explains the club’s And from there, the rest is pretty much history. From Sven Väth and Underground Resist-
Rich McGinnis, a driving force through much of its 10-year journey. ance to Gilles Peterson and Marky, every DJ worth his salt has played Chibuku’s genre-
“It was Cream, it was Garlands and it was all door whores, shiny shirts, pointy shoes and smashing spectaculars during their subsequent climb. They’ve championed dubstep,
glam house or trance.” French electro and drum & bass to the main rooms of Liverpool — both at their beloved
Bringing things back to basics, the Chibuku crew — initially comprising of a whole gang Masque and occasional home Nation — and even got an unsolicited stamp of approval
of student mates — had other ideas. They gathered the lost souls disillusioned by the from Ed Banger chief, Pedro ‘Busy P’ Winter.
superclubs and set up shop in the tiny, ramshackle Lemon Lounge. With door entry “Pedro used to come over before we even knew who he was,” explains Rich. “He used to fly
at £4 and music revolving around filtered disco and quality house, the place was soon over with his wife and you’d see this rock-star style dude having a dance with his stunning
packed. bird. When we finally worked out who he was and asked what he was doing here, he just
“It was very raw, the soundsystem was dire and it was mainly our residents Luke Carr replied ‘I love this club’.” We couldn’t have put it better ourselves, Pedro.
and Wandy, but everyone would meet up once a month and go completely bananas. It
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